Newcastle And Gateshead Building Society

The Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society is a bank built around 1845 by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle Joint Stock Bank. It is designed in the Palazzo style and constructed from sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The building has four storeys and five bays. The central entrance features double doors with an overlight set in a rusticated ground floor, which includes five arched openings, although the ones to the left of the door are covered by a 20th-century fascia. The right side has round-headed windows, while the left side has plain windows.

On the first floor, panelled pilasters define the bays that contain round-headed windows with keyed arched surrounds. A wide moulded bracket supports a three-bay balcony on the second floor. The second and third floors are adorned with a Giant Ionic Order, pulvinated friezes, and pediments above the second-floor windows, along with bracketed architraves on the third floor. The building is topped with an entablature featuring a dentilled and modillioned cornice, and the low-pitched hipped roof has three conjoined ashlar chimneys.